Posts Tagged ‘Proceso penal’
What Can We Do to Prevent the Imprisonment of Innocent People in Latin America?
Preventing erroneous detentions and wrongful convictions should be a priority of the criminal justice system.
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Colombia counts with the necessary tools to confront the enormous impunity facing sexual violence in the armed conflict. It is time to put them into practice.
Read MoreUruguay and Guantánamo
The Guantanamo detention center symbolizes the way in which a democracy should never fight democracy.
Read MorePrison Populism and Pre-trial Detention
A few days ago the Ombudsman’s Office identified the detention centers with the highest rate of overpopulation in the country.
Read MoreJustice’s Time
According to the World Justice Project published this year, Colombia ranks 79th out of 99 in criminal justice effectiveness.
Read MoreThe Prison Problem in Colombia
For Carolina Villadiego the problem in the country’s prisons stems from various causes, the judicial strike among them.
Read MoreAmicus Curiae for Mr. President of the Transitory Liquidating Criminal Court
Presented by the Due Process of Law Foundation, Human Rights Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society- Dejusticia.
Read MoreIrrational Efforts: Criminal Investigations of Homicide and other Complex Crimes
The Colombian Attorney General’s Office´s quantitative records show that investigative efforts are employed irrationally. The absence of a strategic prioritization policy —as opposed to the unclear and arbitrary way officials currently process cases— does not allow criminal policy efforts to focus on investigating the most important cases.
Read MoreInsufficient Judicial Independence, Deformed Preventive Prison: The cases of Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
In this study we analyze the main pressures and interferences to which Colombian judges and prosecutors are subject when they have to make decisions regarding the imposition of preventive detention
Read MoreExperiences in Latin American Countries on the Investigation of Complex Crimes
In this document we describe some of the experiences in the region’s countries regarding the investigation of complex crimes.
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